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LIDA 2014

Altmetrics in the humanities: perceptions of Italian scholars

Anna Maria Tammaro(University of Parma)


Digital Humanities

“The digital humanities, also known as humanities computing, is a field of study, research, teaching, and invention concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. It is methodological by nature and interdisciplinary in scope. It involves investigation, analysis, synthesis and presentation of information in electronic form. It studies how these media affect the disciplines in which they are used, and what these disciplines have to contribute to our knowledge of computing.”

Matthew Kirschenbaum 2010


DH Manifesto“The diversity of digital

media and publication genres need to be accepted as genuine means of scientific communication”, including “ repositories, publication platforms, social media networks and blogging”,


Digital humanities in Italy

Pioneers: 1945-1980 Networked: 1980-2011 Research centers

for connected communities Collaborative: 2011- infrastructure for

collaboration


Pionieri: Roberto Busa (1913-2011)


AIUCD Italian Association IU

From 2011 Website http://www.umanisticadigitale.it Collective Blog Leggere Scrivere Far di conto

http://infouma.hypotheses.org List http://mailman.humnet.unipi.it/ listinfo/aiucd-l Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/aiucd/

http://www.umanisticadigitale.it/

http://infouma.hypotheses.org/


Typologies of research output

More and more research output is happening outside the traditional journal or book.

Dictionary, Concordances, Data Bases, Data sets

Literary editions Websites, Blogs Archives and Digital

Libraries OER, MOOC Software tools


EUROPE Project EICSTES

(European Indicators, Cyberspace and the Science-Technology-Economy System)

Wiser Project Web indicators for Science Technology and Innovation Research

Evaluation methodsITALY Anvur italian Agency Quality

Journals distribution in two categories of quality GEV A&B

Combination of Impact Factor with peer review evaluation

What? Only books and articles in pdf format


Peer review

DARIAH/NINES Centernet


Altmetrics

The definition of altmetrics stands for alternative metrics and is a way to measure the impact of a scholarly article or project by charting social media mentions as well as blog posts and bookmarks.

Altmetrics Mendeley group (www.mendeley.com/groups/586171/altmetrics/papers/)


Research Life Cycle

Many platforms and tools try to support the research life cycle


Social mediaAccess Register Discuss Recommend Cite

Counter Citeulike Twitter Nines Scopus

Insitutional Repositories

DeliciousAcademia.edu

FacebookLinkedin

Reviews Web of Science

Virtual Research Environment Slideshare, Bamboo/DIRT

Mendeley, ZoteroAcademic blogsPrinted ArticlesWikipedia

Academic blogs

Printed articles

Google Scholar

Wikipedia


Aims ad objectives

Aim: to propose alternative methods of evaluation of digital

publications in the humanities

Objectives: make evident the usage and the perceptions of the

creators of digital resources for evaluation by Altmetrics;

understand barriers and obstacles to evaluation by Altmetrics


MethodologyFirst phase Inventory of communities

and research projects and artefacts

Second phase Questionnaire followed

by interviews with experts in each disciplinary sector

Third phase

Final Report will be discussed by thematic focus groups


DH Research Center1 Accademia della Crusca

2 CELCT (Center for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies)

3 CIBIT (Centro Interuniversitario Biblioteca Italiana Telematica)

4 CISI (Centro Interstrutture di Servizi Informatici e Telematici per le Facoltà Umanistiche)

5 CILTA (Centro Interfacoltà di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata)

6 CTL (Centro di elaborazione informatica di testi e immagini nella Tradizione Letteraria)

7 DIGILAB. Centro intertipartimentale di ricerca e servizi

8 Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale

9 ILC (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale)

10 LABIUM

11 OVI (Opera del Vocabolario Italiano)

12 SIGNUM (Centro di ricerche informatiche per le discipline umanistiche)

13 SISMEL (Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino)

14 UNIPR CoLab (Co-Laboratorio dell'Università di Parma)


Projects and artefacts

http://linclass.classics.unibo.it/udwiki

http://linclass.classics.unibo.it/udwiki


Data collection tool

What indicators would you use to evaluate the quality of humanities research? include in the reply the indicators that have been used (VQR, ASN), but do not restrict to these

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GZSB27F

Quantitative Number publication,

citation, page rank, subscribers and followers, preferences

Qualitative Citations, Wikipedia,

Peer review and recommendations




First findings

The perceptions of scholars for evaluation using social media is critical.

“Many alternative channels from which to collect the assessment mean much more work for the scholar”

“Preferences can be constructed artificially, what scientific credibility likers can have?”

The peer review is the preferred evaluation method

Trust-building is needed


To be continued.... Whereas the traditional humanities typically value

originality, authority, and authorship—an ethos based in part on the scarcity of information and the perceived need for gatekeepers—the Digital Humanities Manifesto instead promotes remixing, openness, and the wisdom of the crowd....

Whereas the traditional humanities are text based and nontechnical and value solitary, specialized work resulting in a book, the digital humanities are collaborative and technical, value design, and are built upon shared information resources

Lisa Spiro 2012

a.m.tammarozadar, 16-20 june 20141 lida 2014 altmetrics in the humanities: perceptions of italian...

Documents

altmetrics slide

unibo slide

ricspapers slide

collaboration slide

research life cycle

digital humanities

quality of humanities

pdf format slide